How to format your references using the Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Smaglik, P. 2003. Moving targets. Nature, 423, 1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sachdev, S. & Starykh, O. A. 2000. Thermally fluctuating superconductors in two dimensions. Nature, 405, 322–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muheim, R., Phillips, J. B. & Akesson, S. 2006. Polarized light cues underlie compass calibration in migratory songbirds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313, 837–839.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Badano, J. L., Leitch, C. C., Ansley, S. J., May-Simera, H., Lawson, S., Lewis, R. A., Beales, P. L., Dietz, H. C., Fisher, S. & Katsanis, N. 2006. Dissection of epistasis in oligogenic Bardet-Biedl syndrome. Nature, 439, 326–330.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Franssen, J.-M. & Vila Real, P. 2016. Fire Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Di Martino, B. 2015. Cloud Portability and Interoperability: Issues and Current Trends. In Cretella, G. & Esposito, A. (Eds.) SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. XIV, 121 p. 58 illus pp., Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Clarke, R. 2012. PIAs in Australia: A Work-In-Progress Report. Pp. 119–148. In Wright, D. & Hert, P. D. (Eds.) Privacy Impact Assessment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. The Science Of Depression. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/science-depression/ on 30 October 2018. IFLScience

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office 1979. Improvements Recommended for Better Oversight of the Capitol Page School. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[Lam, N. N. 2013. The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.]

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Conte, L. 2011. Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sachdev & Starykh 2000; Smaglik 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sachdev & Starykh 2000)
Three or more authors: (Badano et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society
ISSN (print)	0269-3445
ISSN (online)	2576-1900
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